Bloomington, IL · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain, and this place is a single county: McLean County, Illinois. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Bloomington, IL, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Bloomington, IL
Year
Total registered
2016
66,286
2018
61,483
2020
67,346
2022
66,192
2024
71,591
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−1,082 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −17,035 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Bloomington, IL in Bloomington, IL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−568
2012
+194
2013
+630
2014
−2,673
2015
−2,664
2016
−1,611
2017
−1,950
2018
−1,567
2019
−2,102
2021
−451
2022
−1,078
2023
−1,251
2024
−862
2025
−1,082
Home to Illinois State University and a major State Farm corporate campus, the Bloomington-Normal metro votes more competitively than its downstate neighbors, reflecting a white-collar, degree-dense workforce that tempers the region's broader rural lean.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 40.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 0.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.9 points.
A population of 171,556, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,905 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Columbia, MO and Lincoln, NE.
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In 2024, Bloomington, IL, Illinois voted Democratic by 4.9 points (D+4.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 86,522 votes cast, 44,495 went Democratic and 40,290 went Republican.
When did Bloomington, IL, Illinois last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Bloomington, IL, Illinois voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Bloomington, IL, Illinois?
Bloomington, IL, Illinois has a population of 171,556 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bloomington, IL, Illinois?
Median household income in Bloomington, IL, Illinois is $79,905 — below the national median of $80,734. The Illinois state median is $83,390.
What is the political history of Bloomington, IL, Illinois?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bloomington, IL, Illinois from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 27 went Republican.
